1552
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| Gregorian calendar | 1552 MDLII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2305 |
| Armenian calendar | 1001 ԹՎ ՌԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6302 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1473–1474 |
| Bengali calendar | 959 |
| Berber calendar | 2502 |
| English Regnal year | 5 Edw. 6 – 6 Edw. 6 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2096 |
| Burmese calendar | 914 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7060–7061 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 4248 or 4188 — to — 壬子年 (Water Rat) 4249 or 4189 |
| Coptic calendar | 1268–1269 |
| Discordian calendar | 2718 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1544–1545 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5312–5313 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1608–1609 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1473–1474 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4652–4653 |
| Holocene calendar | 11552 |
| Igbo calendar | 552–553 |
| Iranian calendar | 930–931 |
| Islamic calendar | 958–960 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenbun 21 (天文２１年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1470–1471 |
| Julian calendar | 1552 MDLII |
| Korean calendar | 3885 |
| Minguo calendar | 360 before ROC 民前360年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 84 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2094–2095 |
| Tibetan calendar | ལྕགས་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Iron-Boar) 1678 or 1297 or 525 — to — ཆུ་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Water-Rat) 1679 or 1298 or 526 |
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1552 (MDLII) was a leap year starting on Friday in the Julian calendar.
Events
Births
- February 1 – Edward Coke, English business person (d. 1634)
- February 8 – Agrippa d'Aubigné, French poet and soldier (d. 1630)
- February 19 – Melchior Klesl, Austrian statesman and cardinal (d. 1630)
- February 28 – Joost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (d. 1632)
- June 18 – Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (d. 1637)
- July 18 – Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1612)
- August 24 – Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (d. 1614)
- September 22 – Tsar Vasili IV of Russia (d. 1612)
- October 6 – Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary to China (d. 1610)
- December 29 – Henri I de Bourbon, prince de Condé (d. 1588)
- December 30 – Simon Forman, English occultist and astrologer (d. 1611)
- date unknown
- Hans von Aachen, German mannerist painter (d. 1615)
- Thomas Aufield, English martyr (d. 1585)
- Jean Bertaut, French poet (d. 1611)
- Miguel de Benavides, Spanish clergyman (d. 1605)
- Richard Hakluyt, English writer, editor and translator (b. c. 1552 or 1553; d. 1616)
- Philemon Holland, English translator (d. 1637)
- Francisco Goméz de Sandoval y Rojas, Duke of Lerma, Spanish politician (d. 1625)
- Dom Justo Takayama, Japanese daimyo (d. 1615)
- Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul, French diplomat (d. 1636)
- Jack Ward, English pirate (d. 1622)
Deaths
- January 10 – Johann Cochlaeus, German humanist (b. 1479)
- January 22 – Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, English politician (b. 1509)
- February 26 – Heinrich Faber, German composer (b. 1500)
- April 18 – John Leland, English historian (b. 1502)
- May 26 – Sebastian Münster, German map maker (b. 1488)
- June 10 – Alexander Barclay, British poet (b. 1476)
- July 9 – György Szondy Hungarian soldier
- August 15 – Hermann of Wied, German Catholic archbishop (b. 1477)
- October 14 – Oswald Myconius, Swiss Protestant reformer (b. 1488)
- October 17 – Andreas Osiander, German Protestant theologian (b. 1498)
- December 2 – Francis Xavier, Spanish Jesuit missionary (b. 1506)
- December 20 – Katharina von Bora, wife of Martin Luther (b. 1499)